COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF AN INTERVENTION TO IMPROVE DIAGNOSIS AND PREVENTION OF PAEDIATRIC TUBERCULOSIS IN UGANDA

'Decentralize Tuberculosis Services and Engage Communities to Transform lives of Children with Tuberculosis' was a project set up to strengthen district and community level health care delivery in two districts in Uganda to improve childhood TB case finding, treatment and prevention and to develop a sustainable health systems delivery model for national and regional scale-up. An initial search identified 513 studies. After the removal of duplicates, only 385 studies were left. The abstracts and titles of the 101 studies were scanned to determine their significance for this systematic review. After elimination, 18 articles remained; they were scrutinized based on predefined eligibility criteria. Finally, 14 articles were identified that effectively passed the eligibility criteria. The DEcentralize Tuberculosis Services and Engage Communities to Transform Lives of Children with Tuberculosis (DETECT) intervention was found to be more cost-effective than the standard of care for diagnosing, managing, and preventing pediatric tuberculosis.